Arts & Entertainment Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong Called Las Vegas a 'Sh*thole,' Now Las Vegas Radio Stations Are Boycotting Their Music At a concert appearance in the SF last weekend, East Bay natives Green Day took a stand about the Oakland A's decision to decamp to Las Vegas, and while their beef is more with the A's ownership than with Las Vegas, two Las Vegas radio stations are taking it personally.
Bay Area Sports Rumors Flying That the A’s Might Stay in Oakland for Another Year, or Even Longer One of Major League Baseball’s most prominent agents has stirred the pot about the possibility of the A’s staying in Oakland for another year or longer, and it may be significant that the players’ union has still not signed off on the deal for the A’s to play in Sacramento.
Bay Area Sports This Weekend Is the Last-Ever A’s-Giants ‘Bay Bridge Series’ Before the A’s Leave Rich with history, the SF Giants and Oakland A’s ‘Bay Bridge Series’ will play out its final iteration on Saturday and Sunday, as the A’s will play in Oakland for only another six weeks.
Bay Area Sports A’s Sell Their Share of the Oakland Coliseum to Black-Owned Development Group for $125 Million The African American Sports & Entertainment Group will soon become the full owner of the Oakland Coliseum, as they bought the City of Oakland's ownership share of the Coliseum earlier this year, and they just bought the other half from the departing Oakland A’s.
Bay Area Sports Oakland Offers the A’s Five-Year Lease Extension for $97 Million to Keep Playing In Usually Empty Coliseum The Oakland A’s need a ballpark for the next three years while their proposed Las Vegas stadium is getting built, but the City of Oakland hopes to charge them nearly $100 million if they want to play those three years at the Oakland Coliseum.
SF News Opening Day Around the Bay: Oakland A’s Restrict Parking Lot Access to Squelch Fan Protest BART is touting that they’re arresting lots more people on their trains these days; the Giants sadly released Pablo Sandoval once and for all; and the Oakland A’s refused to open their parking lot Thursday afternoon because of fan protesters.
Bay Area Sports Oakland A’s Release Renderings of Proposed ‘Spherical Armadillo’ Las Vegas Stadium, To Widespread Mockery The sun is literally setting in the wrong direction in the Oakland A’s seemingly AI-generated new renderings of their proposed Las Vegas ballpark, which may be a metaphor for this troubled stadium gamble.
Bay Area Sports Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Had Secret Meeting With MLB Commissioner To Keep The A’s, But Struck Out Swinging Tuesday night’s MLB All-Star Game heard A’s fans chanting “Sell the team!,” but we’re also now learning of a secret meeting between Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred before the game, though Manfred balked at Thao’s case.
Bay Area Sports Humpday Headlines: A's Fans' Reverse Boycott Packs Stands, and the A's Won Around 28,000 Oakland A's fans packed the stands in a "reverse boycott" Tuesday night; the A's stadium financing plan moved forward in the Nevada legislature; and apartment rents are down slightly across California.
Bay Area Sports Oakland A’s Move to Las Vegas Looks Like a Done Deal, Team Just Bought Stadium Site, But Who Knows A wild Wednesday night of developments loaded the bases for the Oakland A’s to move to Las Vegas, as the A’s organization bought land for a stadium, Major League Baseball blessed the deal, and Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao declared she was done negotiating with team executives.
Bay Area Sports Bay Bridge Series Kicks Off at Oracle Park and It's the Biggest Local Event Since Pandemic Began The SF Giants and the Oakland A's are repeating the time-honored tradition tonight of the Bay Bridge series, competing against each other in a set of three East Bay vs. West Bay games at Oracle Park.
Bay Area Sports Proposed A's Ballpark On Oakland Waterfront Clears First Legislature Hurdle The proposed new ballpark for the Oakland A's on the Howard Terminal site near Jack London Square has inched forward Tuesday in what is likely to be a complicated approval process at the state and local level.
SF News A's (Again) Eye Port Of Oakland Site For New Ballpark The Oakland Athletics could one day have a waterfront ballpark to rival AT&T Park, with A’s co-owner John Fisher showing interest in a Port of Oakland site as a potential
